Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

“I was always interested in how cells decide their fate,” Zernicka-Goetz said. In the mouse developing embryo, she previously demonstrated a bias at the two-cell stage: one cell contributed more to ...

So, Haeckel proposed, by examining the development of an embryo you could read its entire evolutionary history in the transition from one stage to another. In fact, this isn't strictly true ...

Scientists Create the First IVF Kangaroo Embryo, Hope to Do the Same for Other Endangered Species Deterioration of ecosystems ...

The live birth rate was lower for women with low odds for IVF success when all embryos were frozen and transferred later than ...

Researchers Australia said that they have for the first time successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through IVF. It ...

The researchers acknowledge some limitations including differences in the number and stage of the embryos transferred that may partly contribute to the difference in live birth rate between groups.

DNA from ancient viruses that form a part of the human genome may be contributing in the early development of an embryo in ...